Leveraging the still-potent power of LI’s past
By GREGORY ZELLER // The aerospace and defense industries might not be Long Island stalwarts anymore, but they’re thriving elsewhere – and one Island startup is helping others fly in…
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SyNC is taking your little piggies to market
By GREGORY ZELLER // Sharone Piontkowksi loves feet. Jonathan Glibert predicts “a forever stream of income.” Paul Schwartz is on board, literally. And don’t get Shlomo Piontkowski started. That’s the…
A thirst to get electrolytic detoxification to market
By GREGORY ZELLER // You’ve heard the grim news: Nitrates, phosphates, arsenates and pharmaceuticals are migrating to local rivers and lakes and ultimately to the Island’s underground aquifers of fresh…
The art of bringing healthcare to market
By GREGORY ZELLER // Dr. Leonardo Interactive Webservices multiplies an impressive medical pedigree with a deep stockpile of exclusive healthcare content to produce a zillion-combination design formula. And no exaggeration…
Soteria Technologies to the rescue
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Greek goddess of safety may help you breathe a little easier in a crisis situation. At least, Soteria Technologies – a Lindenhurst firm named for…
Chris and Ben’s exhaustive search for a better vacuum
By GREGORY ZELLER // Vacuuming with those canister-shaped wet/dry vacuum cleaners can lead to a real dust up. That, at least, is the problem encountered by East Setauket father/son inventing…
Sam Altman is, no surprise, focused and intense
Sam Altman is the just-turned-30 president of Y Combinator, the world’s most prestigious accelerator and the booster behind $30 billion worth of startups, including Airbnb, Dropbox, Zenefits and Stripe. He…
For Digital Fly, winging it pays off
Digital Fly is apparently taking off. Since officially launching in September, the real-time social media monitoring and alert service – designed to safeguard school districts from threats big and small…
Reed Phillips is digging those good vibrations
By GREGORY ZELLER // Renewable energy is boundless and everywhere – the ocean, the cars zooming by on the highway, even the mom pushing a baby stroller through the park…
Varun Mehta’s voyage of self-Disqovery
By GREGORY ZELLER // When founder and CEO Varun Mehta incorporated app-maker Disqovery Inc. in 2013, even he wasn’t sure what, exactly, it would be. Then a student at Harvard…
Ruchi Shah creates a buzz
By GREGORY ZELLER // There’s ingenuity, there’s determination and there’s rock-solid fundamental science. Then there’s Ruchi Shah. To say the Stony Brook University senior – hurtling toward a bachelor’s degree…
Fred Dunwoody has the write stuff
By GREGORY ZELLER // Fred Dunwoody’s decades in the sales divisions of major-league imaging firms like Canon, Minolta and Konica taught him the future wasn’t in the copiers they sold…
Bettr, above ground and rising
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s not an after-school project anymore. When we last left James Knaus and Ashish Pandhi in April, the enterprising Hofstra University students were working in Pandhi’s…
Buncee seeks $3M (or so) for growth spurt
By GREGORY ZELLER // Buncee notched its 80,000th user on Monday, a cause for celebration certainly, but also a bittersweet milestone for the Calverton-based “digital canvas.” It’s been great so…
A way to keep construction projects on traxx
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the If You Want Something Done Right file comes a startup determined to keep alternative-energy construction projects on track – starting with work done by…